Saw the little blurb about Dash on Xizor's page. I don't have quite the same nostalgic connection to Dash or Kyle like many others do, but I'm excited that people are so excited! I'll still gladly add him to the collection too, just to support expanding the video game lines.
Pre-ordered Bacara, Xizor, and 2 Commando droids. I'll snag Luke, Leia, and Dagan when they go up next week. I keep taking a look at all the figures about to ship, and it feels like a balloon that just keeps filling with air. I know it's gonna pop soon and a flood of figures will come my way, which is exciting, but also a bit daunting. The 2 Shriek Hawk releases, Enoch and the Death Trooper, IG and the Anzellans (which Amazon just pushed up to arriving next week), Ahsoka, Thrawn, Maul, Cassian, Dedra, Momaw (who just hit my pile of loot, but I'm holding off for a bit), Jecki, etc. I'm sure there's some I'm forgetting too. It's gonna feel like Christmas morning, but my poor wallet is gonna be on life support. Spread things out, Hasbro!
What season of Clone Wars did the Commando Droids show up in? I've been slowly making my way through the series over the past 5 to 10 years and am about 2/3 of the way through. Still haven't seen a minute of that final season everyone seemed to like.
They show up pretty early honestly. I remember them coming in killing quite a few clones on the 1 episode with the listening post. I don't remember the episode name and I'm too lazy to look it up. I'm thinking it was Echo and Fives introduction episode as well. And they show up periodically through the series but not super often. I preordered a couple. I think with the army builders that what I'm gonna do is order 2 a piece and if they ever go on sale or clearance I'll order a couple more. I have 4 dark Troopers cause of them going on clearance. But I only have 2 regular BDs, grey BDs and Super BDs. If they go on sale I'll definitely try to get more, but I doubt most of them will.
I like the new one armed dude. Haven't played the game yet so I don't know who he is, but he looks cool. And the Luke and Leia both look good. But I have the ones with soft goods, so I'm not jonesing for the new ones. If they go on sale maybe, but I don't need them. I'm fine with the ones I have.
I am a soft goods apologist, but even I have to admit that the previous Luke/Leia are unmanageable in their parka/hooded comforter (respectively). I have the SHF Luke so I'll probably pass on the Black Series Luke and only grab the Leia.
Yea, they're not the best soft goods representations. But I don't mind them as much as some people. I'm more of the mindset right now that I can't be buying a whole lot of figures I have already that are just upgrades. I have versions I'm fine with, and the price of these is high now. Before, if these were still $20 or less I'd be jumping on them. No problem. But nowadays I have to be more picky. There are certain characters that I'll make exceptions for. But I can't be doing it with everything sadly.
Excited about Xizor! I definitely want Dash Rendar, who was a favorite figure of mine back in the day.
Commando Droid is very cool—they were very effective in Clone Wars.
Bacara sold out on me at Pulse, but I was able to preorder him at BBTS.
Really hope to finally get armored Gideon, Book of Boba Fett Boba Fett, The Stranger, and the Mandalorian Praetorian Guards sometime. At least we got to preorder those Beskar Imperial Super Commandoes.
And now Rex is back up for sale on BBTS with no order limit in place. They also seem to have a bunch now since their max quantity of 24 is visible for him, and when that's the case you know they usually have well over 24 available.
With the announcement of Xizor, and the possibility of Dash Rendar, I'd love to see more SotE figures come out. Luke wearing the tan vest, Chewbacca as Snoova, Xizor's bodyguard Guri...
@normdapito All those, and I'd add Leebo and the Coruscant Guard. With or without Luke and Lando heads. Gotta have a Leia in there as well. She had some possibilities even beyond Boushh.
Also wouldn't be a bad way to release a Pre-production Boba Fett, since he had the yellow gauntlet in the game like the PP armors.
Acolyte update: 6 figures came in. Same 6 figures peg warming on a endcap.
@normdapito First thing I did when I saw the Xizor preorder go up was ping my buddy and just say in all caps "CHEWIE WITH A FLATTOP NEXT!"
I'm not even that nostalgic for that particular era, I just think they'd be really, really fun figures.
Random thought of the night while reorganizing a bit - have there really not been that many releases of Yoda over the years? I kind of always assume I have too many of everyone with improved paint apps (that year and a half where they just kept putting out a better Luke face sculpt every few months) but I think I only have the reissued cardback one and the two-pack with trainee Luke (and the two-pack with Gree is of course pending). Other than the original one that was remade for the reissue, there's only been a few Yodas, right?
Just found it funny because I have so many Obi-Wans I really love, truly too many Lukes, just about the right amount of Hans and Leias... Though I reckon characters like Yoda or R2 (someone else I have fewer of than I thought) don't have costume changes or different lewks through the years.
@docsilence I'm still waiting for a proper PT Yoda though. I don't mean the 1999 puppet but one that looks more like the digital version from AOTC and ROTS rather than an ESB figure with a lightsaber.
I just moved TBS accessories into a new container last night and one of my thoughts was "how many Yoda canes do I have?!" I think it was five?